Sale 2339
New York
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16 - 17 September 2010
Price realised
USD 110,500
Estimate
AN EMBELLISHED SPINACH JADE FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE Comprising a rectangular fangding raised on four tall supports, with a pair of upright handles and a cover surmounted by a white jade dragon-form finial, a pair of pricket candlesticks, and a pair of gu-form vases; all inlaid in white jade with floral sprays, lappets, taotie masks and chilong reserved on the spinach-green jade ground carved with leiwen The tallest 13¾ in. (35 cm.) high (5)
Provenance
Harry M. and Alois Sonneborn Collection; offered Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 17-18 May 1989, lot 681.
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